The concept of emergency medicine is relatively new to the Indian medical world while it has become the back bone of the healthcare system in most developed countries. B.Sc. Emergency Medical Technology is a four-year undergraduate course including one-year compulsory internship program.
Emergency medicine is a field of practice based on the knowledge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of the acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioral disorders. It is a specialty in which time is critical.
Emergency Medical team takes care of patient presenting with acute emergencies. All the initial resuscitation will be done by the Emergency Medical team comprising of Emergency physician, Technician and other paramedical staff. This course trains and focuses on initial resuscitation of patient who arrives in the Emergency room. As the number of trauma and natural disasters are increasing day by day, Emergency Medicine has become the need of the hour.